Course Template

The key elements I wanted to encourage with my course templates were clarity and interaction through quizzes, lessons, guided discussion, Moodle Wiki and feedback

Course Template

The course design template on the college's previous LMS. The page headings show a recommended structure to consistently apply. I hoped to encourage staff to keep their courses minimalist and clear, feature only the most important resources and finish each course page with interactive and student generated content.

Customer Service

The HR department needed an online customer service course and assessment. I had no assistance or budget to source images so created my own.
I also experimented with JavaScript to create Articulate Storyline like interactions directly on the Moodle course page.

Chemistry course page

I enjoyed adding style, clarity and structure to this highly engaging, interactive and multimedia rich course page.

Promotion of Moodle Interactive elements

The college's staff needed encouragement to use Moodle's activites in addition to its resources. I listed the options and thier function with as brief an explaination as possible whilst graphically indicating how quickly each activity could be built.
Featuring successful examples, to bring each activity to life, was to be the next step.

Summary explanations for Moodle resources

I hoped this would be an improvement on the text heavy Moodle Documentation.

To promote the e-learning provision from CU Services to the University faculties, I needed a user friendly platform, content presented with clarity and relevant use of video, animation and interactivity. I encouraged faculties to use our platform for their commercial facing courses.

Health Journalism home page.

Health Journalism course page.

Moodle training e-book used to promote the CU Services Moodle to the faculties.

Student view after initial log-in screen

Students will see the list of courses they are enrolled on in addition to their private files and profile settings.

An online course orientation week

Visually introducing the teacher was important to me. I also wanted to move away from a traditional moodle look. I also altered the construction from the editors point of view in these course pages, but can only been seen through admin log in and navigating in edit mode.

Tutors Podcast

I leant it was important to encourage Academics to record their video at the Institute where we could control the location, lighting camera and sound. We could set the environment for them and then leave. This would result in a much better experience for the students.

Audio and visual presentations

Moodle provides a number of options for embedding Articulate presentations in our courses but it only allows you to apply one option to each activity. I wanted to apply two option to each audio / visual activity, so found a way!

Audio and visual presentations

This was the 'embed option'. It works fine for me and keeps the user within a consisent interface, making navigation easier. But, some users would find the text too small so would need a full screen option. I designed the course to clearly provide both options.

Avsec's presentational and promotional Front end

These pages were not part of the Avsec platform. Moodle wasn't built to promote courses. We needed a website for this purpose, but seamlessly attached to the learning platform.

Some of our courses

This is a snap shot of the screen a guest would see upon accessing the e-learning part of Avsec School.

This is a snapshot of GSAT - converted to e-learning.

Interactivity was also very easy to bring across.

Flash Based SCORM compliant quizzes

Flash provided a template for SCORM based graphical quizzes that we uploaded to Moodle with a customised manifest file. Users scores could then be recorded.

I could enjoy focusing purely on the graphics, as the technical side was all taken care of.

Moodle statistics

I've always felt the possibilities for presenting student and group progress are vast. I have seen this side of Moodle progress but not as fast as I'd hoped.